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John Hernandez

@johnhernandez.bsky.social
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I wear many hats. 🧢 OpenNews rapscallion & co-director. 🧘 Burning up in ATX. 🫠 Queens kid at heart. #LFGM #LGI 🗽🍕⚽ Midwest enthusiast. 🏒🚣‍♂️🌲 "Too crazy for Boys Town, too much of a boy for Crazy Town"

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Framing this as a result of the "fragility" of the system rather than a direct result of Israel's genocidal actions is a choice. One that other outlets managed to avoid making.
theguardian.com
Israel facing water shortages caused by destruction of Gaza’s treatment plants
Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The House has only been in session for 72 days this year
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"we offer a more mundane, if less headline-grabbing, threat: AI that encourages human anger and validates grievances to violent ends. More directly, what keeps us up at night ... is a human, or set of humans, with an AI teammate who is willing to enable and support every malign whim."
lawfaremedia.org
The AI Threat We’re Not Talking About
AI employees are raising concerns about an extinction-level event. But there’s a more immediate threat.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"A guide to help journalists define voter fraud, understand how rarely it occurs, and spot potential errors in government datasets" - from SciLine / AAAS www.sciline.org/elections/vo...
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What research tells us about voter fraud - SciLine
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're talking salaries and job listings at today's @opennews.bsky.social Community Call! Join me and the gang as we discuss some results from an informal month-long review of journalism job postings. What's the grim reality of looking for a journalism job right now? Call starts at noon ET!
opennews.org
Community Calls and Standups
OpenNews connects a network of developers, designers, journalists, and editors to collaborate on open technologies and processes within journalism. Alongside our community, our mission includes fighti...
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RS Benedict @rsbenedict.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this--THIS--is the truest recession indicator
Sticker on a cooler at a convenience store advertising Arizona iced tea cans at $1.50 each.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the best thing about being in my 40s by far has been the freedom to refer to anonymous guys in their late teens/early 20s as “kid” like Han Solo calls Luke in Star Wars. been waiting my whole life for this. worth every second. indescribable feeling of power.
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have been working on this story in one way shape or form since the Guardian investigations team got a leak of deportation manifests in the first months of the Trump admin In the data were records of kids as young as a few weeks old loaded onto flights.
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Plane to purgatory: how Trump’s deportation program shuttles immigrants into lawless limbo
44,000 immigrants, 1,700 flights, 100 days: a Guardian investigation of leaked flight data and government detention data reveals the inhumane journey of immigrants shuttled around and outside the US
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Will Craft @wcraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Records obtained through a FOIA lawsuit shows that despite record number of pregnant women are in detention, ICE has lost count of the number of miscarriages. A Deleted Data/Immigration/Guardian investigations collab
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...
wired.com
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW A year on, conspiracy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk show no sign of slowing down. I spoke to @noupside.bsky.social @bostonjoan.bsky.social @jaredlholt.bsky.social and Joseph Uscniski to find out why they persist... www.wired.com/story/charli...
wired.com
Charlie Kirk Was Shot a Year Ago. The Conspiracy Theories Are More Rampant Than Ever
Experts say conspiracy theorizing about the identity and motive of Charlie Kirk's killer will likely continue for a long time to come.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 10/09/2026
lol. It turns out people have thought of this before and that's why it's now illegal
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Mathematics only makes sense as a gift economy. It has no trade secrets. Substituting a monetizable ersatz culture for the one evolved through historical experience is a particularly insidious form of knowledge collapse.” Mathematician Michael Harris on the AI companies coming for math:
bostonreview.net
Knowledge Collapse
AI companies are racing to mechanize mathematics. Where does that leave human understanding?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
But in almost every serious newsroom I work in now, headlines are an afterthought
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Max loves you.
Max the dog peering from a doorway. He is standing on a black carpet with dots in different colors.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In a functioning democracy, the public would be alarmed if the president boasted that he was “able to break the court system a little bit."
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026
feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post
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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 27/08/2026
Hi! I'm the Frankie mentioned here and you should listen to a group of trans people talking about our own community, which seems like a radical prospect in the current media landscape.
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“The latest figures include the initial wave of arrests of Haitian immigrants whose Temporary Protected Status was revoked in July.” 💔
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Sara @saralovesyou.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Jon Collins’s reporting on these issues has been so excellent.
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Going on day 5 of a broken AC, and I still can't decide if those 5 degrees make a difference. (Don't worry. I'm only home to wait on the repair guy.)
A La Crosse digital weather station showing an outside temperature of 99 degrees outside and 94 degrees inside at John's house.
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/08/2026
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now, the genetic information of hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime–including children–are held in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 03/08/2026
take your pto off you got it folks.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 31/07/2026
also a good time to support non-transphobic news orgs started by queer and trans people 😉
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 27/07/2026
🚨NEW: Pres. Trump's belligerent use of policing and prosecutions has already left its mark on the federal system. Over the last two years, federal incarceration and detention have grown by 12%, with immigration detention and prosecution being a main driver. 🧵
Line chart showing that the number of people confined by federal agencies is more than six times greater in 2026 (260,000) than it was in 1984, although it remains below its 2011 peak.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A guiding principle for my life has been "become the role model I wish I had when I was younger" and a person cannot really do that while compromising morals and ethics. Maybe I would have more money, but I have also seen how rich people are not necessarily happier with it either.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'm amazed at the "companies" that older folks encounter when they're being scammed and ask me for tech support. This one literally answers "why was I charged?" in their FAQs. And it includes this gem of an explanation for "Why Refunds Are Better Than Chargebacks."
A screenshot from the Unsubby website's refund page that tries to explain "Why Refunds Are Better Than Chargebacks" because they clearly get a lot of chargebacks from unsuspecting victims of their business model.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This young man was valedictorian of his high school. He came to the U.S. when he was three. ICE held him for a month. Then they shipped him to El Salvador. www.dallasnews.com/news/immigra...
dallasnews.com
Texas Christian University student deported to El Salvador
Luis Andrade Garcia came to the United States from El Salvador around age 3. ICE deported him this week following an arrest in Arlington.
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Doug Dillaman @dillamonster.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Also the video is wonderful, real Tim Robinson vibes but its own thing tidal.com/video/543054...
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Protomartyr - Sounds We Cannot Hear
Watch Sounds We Cannot Hear on TIDAL
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Adding to my list of favorite AI hallucinations: The 1951 potato-throwing incident at the Tour de France.
A screenshot from the Google Search app on Android showing a query that asks for "most tdf riders lost in one incident on the tour." The Google AI summary that follows contains at least one hallucination that's highlighted.
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Planet Detroit @planetdetroit.org · 22/07/2026
The risk of another smoke event is not high, “but it’s not zero,” Canada Wildfire’s Brian Wiens tells Planet Detroit. planetdetroit.org/2026/07/wildfire-…
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Are you a reporter who covers wildfires, smoke, climate and/or the environment? Do you have 10-15 minutes to talk to me for an OpenNews case study on personal protective equipment and newsroom best practices on covering wildfires and smoke? Email karen at opennews.org, DM, or Signal at karenkho.45.
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The way AI keeps being pushed in certain circles without context, like from this NYT piece, unmoors me. It feels trite to ask, but how is it not a bait & switch silver bullet? Trickle-down newsroom revenue strategies tied to AI also means the traffic cannibalism machine will keep feasting, too. 🫠
nytimes.com
Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed (Gift Article)
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT DO YOUR STRETCHES.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/07/2026
I'm seeing really ugly stuff in the replies on how she chose this and I want you to take a beat to understand how the military disproportionately targets certain communities, including and especially in Texas, for recruitment.
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ceej @ceej.online · 19/07/2026
just give shakira the world cup
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
if you're ever doing time travel and you notice i'm starting to fade from a photograph, don't worry about it
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hi! For reporting I'm doing at @motherjones.com, I'm looking to connect with people on how workplace accommodations has helped their mental health when it comes to changing in function due to Long Covid. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
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Salty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
That’s my good hatchet and I don’t know you. Here, use this one instead
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I love how this makes it seem like they stopped monitoring RFK Jr
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I just noticed we're $225 away from hitting our $1,500 fundraising goal for OpenNews' 15th birthday. Coincidentally, that means fifteen $15 donations would get us there. That's lots of fifteens. Maybe not a coincidence after all? Get me to 15 shares. We'll see.
zeffy.com
OpenNews turns 15! 🥳
Help us connect more journalists to peers, support and community.Your gift helps sustain a community where journalists and technologists learn from one…
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I just noticed we're $225 away from hitting our $1,500 fundraising goal for OpenNews' 15th birthday. Coincidentally, that means fifteen $15 donations would get us there. That's lots of fifteens. Maybe not a coincidence after all? Get me to 15 shares. We'll see.
zeffy.com
OpenNews turns 15! 🥳
Help us connect more journalists to peers, support and community.Your gift helps sustain a community where journalists and technologists learn from one…
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 10/07/2026
According to The Atlantic, the end of literacy is nigh, though you already know that if you read The Baffler—we devoted an entire issue to the subject last fall. thebaffler.com/issues/no-81
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We're all trying to find the guy who did this.
A photo of a printed photo of John, OpenNews  co-director, holding a piñata from the organization's birthday party at SRCCON.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.
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John Hernandez @johnhernandez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Don't worry, folks. We took care of the candy curious st SRCCON with three piñatas from wonderful Minneapolis shop, Fiesta Mexicana y Mas. Go support them! Win, win, win: support a local business, we all got tons of goodies and I bought my Halloween candy early this year.
A Source-con attendee prepares a blindfolded Source-con attendee before she attempts to hit a piñata hanging from a tree outside the conference venue in celebration of 15 years of OpenNews.
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